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SPIRITUAL HEALING 



CHARLES EDGAR PRATHER, Ph.D. 



THE POWER PUBLISHING COMPANY, 
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FOREWORD. 

These simple lessons are essentially a complete course of prac- 
tical instruction in Spiritual Healing, showing how one may unfold 
to the Consciousness wherein is Peace of Mind and Health of Body. 

Upon their publication in magazine form, the demand for them 
became so great that three editions of the same were published; 
then came a popular demand that they be given in a more permanent 
and convenient form — hence this book. 

May the truths contained herein open the spiritual eyes of all 
who may read them to a recognition of their true and eternal State 
of Being. 



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INDEX. 



OUR AUTHORITY 

DISEASE 15 

Cause of Disease 16 

Knowledge the Remedy 18 

Source of Knowledge 19 

Intellect and Spirit 20 



7 

NOTED EXAMPLES OF HEALING. 39 

The Leper and Palsied Man 41 

The Servant 42 

Sin and Disease 42 

The Ten Lepers 43 



HEALING A BIBLE DOCTRINE.... 25 

Jesus Had Power of Healing 27 

Laying on of Hands 28 

Curing vs. Healing 31 

You Can Heal 32 

Healing Through Apostles and 

Others 34 

Faith the Foundation 36 

Baptism 37 



DAY OF HEALING NOT PASSED.. 45 
Unchanging Character of God.... 47 
Healing Now Being Demonstrated 49 
The Emmanuel Movement 52 

INSTANTANEOUS HEALING 55 

Unfoldment 57 

Gradual Unfoldment 59 



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NECESSARY STEPS TO HEALING. 63 

On the Part of Practitioner 65 

To be Illumined 66 

Steadfastness 67 

Basing Decision on Principle 68 

Knowing Only the One Power. . . 69 

Faithfulness 69 

Perfect Confidence 72 

Non-resistance 73 

Lead to Knowledge and Practice 

of Truth 74 

On the Part of Patient: 

Sincere Desire to be Healed 75 

Receptivity 76 

Faith 77 

All Things Possible 80 

The Prayer of Faith 80 

Works Accompanying Faith 82 

Activity in Expression 83 

Examples of Active Faith 83 

ABSENT HEALING 85 

The Omnipresence 87 

No Limit to Thought-Force 91 



Concentration 92 

Renewing of the Mind 94 

Becoming Attuned 95 

Speaking the Word 98 

Spiritual, Not Hypnotic, Treatment. 100 

THE SILENCE 103 

Our Chamber of Peace 105 

How to Enter the Silence 107 

How to Pray 108 

FORMULAS FOR SELF-TREAT- 
MENT Ill 

For Realization of God's Presence. .113 

The True Self 114 

Faith 114 

Abundance 115 

Thoughts on Retiring 115 

Thoughts on Awaking 116 

For Wisdom 117 

For Health 119 

For the Environment 121 

For Abundance 123 

SUMMARY 125 



OUR AUTHORITY. 

^JTRUTH is Truth wherever found. Finding that Truth, becom- 
I IL m §" one w ^h it through the unfoldment of consciousness, 
%^ gives you the realization of its nature in all things — your 
body, affairs, environment. We take our lessons in this dis- 
cussion from the Bible, for it has been the spiritual authority to 
most of us; not that a statement is true simply because it appears 
in the Bible, but because of the truth of the Law of which it is the 
expression. 

No book can be compared to the Bible in its portrayal of the 
unfoldment of Mind in the individual. It is your life written large, 
in your progress from sense to Spirit. As literature, the Bible is un- 
surpassed. The poetry of the Psalms has never been equalled. The 
admonitions and proverbs of Solomon, the Ten Commandments, and 
the Golden Rule of Jesus, are to-day the guide-posts of civic and 
moral law. 



8 SPIRITUAL HEALING 

The Bible portrays every phase of human and spiritual unfold- 
ment. While many of the recorded events must be allegorical, used 
merely for the purpose of illustrating the Truth of Life, undoubt- 
edly many of its historical recitals are correct; yet little value lies in 
the history of it, because it matters not to you — it is not essential 
to your salvation — to know, for instance, that Jesus was born in a 
manger ; but it is essential and absolutely necessary for you to know 
that the birth of the Christ, the activity of the Spirit, the conscious- 
ness of God, comes to you in that lowly, unobserved, unpretentious 
manner, as Jesus' birth is recorded. It does not come with shouts 
and sound of trumpets, but it comes in quietness, in humility and 
lowliness. 

Jesus taught much in symbols — they were so readily understood 
by the people, for the illustrations used were the things with which 
they were familiar. Thus he spoke of the sheep to illustrate the 
Good Shepherd; to the farmers he likened the "Word of God" to 
the good seed, etc. Such allegories were also common in Old Tes- 
tament times, and we frequently read, "Which being interpreted." 



SPIRITUAL HEALING 9 

The birth of the Christ in you is the unfoldment of your con- 
sciousness so that you know yourself divine, just like your Source, 
for "like produces like." This awakening into a realization of the 
Truth through which you know what you are, draws like a magnet 
all good unto you. 

Not only do the "wise men of the East" come with their gifts 
to this new-born Christ in you, but it is a true and accurate law that 
if you lift up this Christ Consciousness, if you place it before you 
as your ideal and standard, then will this Christ draw all unto you. 
The passage reads "will draw all men unto me." The word "men" 
is printed in italics, showing that it was supplied by the translators 
and was not in the original text — the translators thought that was 
what was meant, that if Jesus as the Savior was lifted up he would 
draw all men to him. But it is the Christ in Jesus, in you and 
everyone, the activity of God in consciousness, which brings forth 
perfect and harmonious expression. 

Paul saw this when he declared, "The letter killeth, but the 
Spirit giveth life." That is the secret of the whole Scriptures ; you 



10 SPIEITUAL HEALING 

must not simply read the letter, but get into the heart, the soul of it 
— the spirit; remembering "All scripture given by inspiration is 
profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction 
in righteousness.''' 

So we read, study and accept this Book of Books not only for 
its history, its allegories, its prophecies, but as the revelation of the 
unfoldment of individual life. 

I do not ask you to accept anything which does not appeal to 
you as Truth. Accept that which is clear and evident ; do not argue 
about the rest, but as you live the truth you now see you will unfold 
in consciousness so that sooner or later all will be made plain to 
you, for the "Spirit of Truth shall lead you into all truth." Thus 
every day you will have a broader and truer vision of Life and its 
manifestations. 

Today you may be in the valley where you can see only the deep 
gulches and the towering heights on either side. The sun you see 
but little, being obscured by the mountain peaks. Begin to ascend 
the mountain, and with every step you will get a larger and better 



SPIRIT UAL HEALING 1 1 

view. Consequently, when you reach a certain height you see that 
the Truth you had in the valley was only the beginning of the 
"break of day" but which increased in splendor as you used it to the 
best of your ability. If you live to your highest vision of Truth, 
you are ascending the Mount of Spiritual Consciousness, and thus 
see and know more of Life each day. It is the daily living, or doing, 
that brings one into that vital touch or realization of the Truth 
which is essential to every life, for it is the "Truth, if ye but find 
it, that shall forever set you free" from every false opinion and 
limitation. God is Wisdom, and when you turn to God, letting go 
your thought concerning externals, you will be rilled with the illu- 
mination of Spirit, and thus know the Truth that frees ; your unity 
with God will become a recognized fact to you, and thus will you 
hereafter see and know only the good, the true, and beautiful, and 
health, life and strength. 

It is this Truth which illumes our hearts and minds, and which 
glows beneath and within all "Scripture given by inspiration" which 
is our foundation, our authority, our guide. 



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Disease. 



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DISEASE- 

^HfrHfrHAT is disease? Divide the word — dis-ease; that is, not 
4jJ ease. And what is ease? Rest, comfort, peace, harmony. 
>4l-%L" What is harmony? Harmony is health. And then what 
is health? The natural state of Mind. Where is it? 
Within you. Jesus said, "The kingdom of heaven is within you." 
Hence heaven is not a place. Jesus never taught that you had to 
die to go to heaven. Even if you die physically, you will never get 
to heaven until you find that harmony which is heaven within your 
own mind, because it is a state of conscious recognition of unity, 
oneness, with God. 

Disease then, logically, means hell, inharmony. As heaven is 
a state of harmony within the mind when one is consciously in ac- 
cord with Spirit, so hell is that confused mentality which is pictured 
in thought and interpreted as sin, disease and death. 



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CAUSE OF DISEASE. 



Ignorance is the cause of disease. If you had always known 
how to keep well, you never would have been sick, but you did not 
know how. Why do you even now get sick? Simply because you 
do not know better. Is that not it? It may be through just a lack 
of knowledge, or through ignoring the Source of health. The fun- 
damental fact in the picturing forth of disease is the lack of knowl- 
edge of the reality of God, of Life, of Substance. You have been 
living in the appearance, the seeming, the external, instead of know- 
ing the true substance; living in the "letter" instead of the Spirit. 

You do not make health, neither do you make sickness. Health 
is the reality, the very nature of this Universal Presence we call God, 
Mind, Spirit. How, then, does one get sick? Through disobedience 
to the LAW; and especially the Law of Expression, resultant from 
the lack of knowledge of that Law. Otherwise no one would be 
sick, for it is disagreeable, uncomfortable, and if he knew the Law 
of Life, he would live in accord with it and avoid these experiences. 



SPIRITUAL HEALING \J 

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God. 
and the Word was God. ... In him was Life ; and the Life was the 
Light of men. . . . That was the true Light, which lighteth every 
man that cometh into the world." — John 1 : 1,4,9. 

Since God is the Source, man must be like Him, of the same 
substance, and possessing all the inherencies of Being. But man has 
been asleep to this fact. That in no way prevents the Light or Truth 
being in him. He has blinded himself by looking at externals and 
wrongly thinking that they are something in and of themselves, and 
with powers of their own. He has not really been looking for the 
Light, although it has been within him all the time; he has been 
looking without, and not within. 

"Ignorance of the law is no excuse," for every one has the means 
of knowing the right; all he needs do is to give attention to that 
Light within him, and the right will be revealed unto him. This 
applies to all thought and action under all law — spiritual, moral, 
statutory, and physical. Therefore, man is himself responsible for 
all the trouble, sickness and limitation in his world. Thought un- 



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illumined projects all of the disorder? of the race. We have been 
groping about in the darkness of sense confusion, having never 
recognized the Light within. 

KNOWLEDGE THE REMEDY. 

What is the remedy for disease ? Since health is harmony, you 
see how to get well and keep well. Become harmonious in your 
thoughts. Peace, joy and contentment are the molders, the potters, 
the unfolding agents of this Consciousness which expresses within 
and without as health. 

Your mentality must be unfolded to the fact of the reality of 
harmony as the nature of Spirit. If you do not see it any other 
way, you must come into this consciousness, or pure knowing, 
through experiences which you may call hard. You look at exter- 
nals and think they are something in and of themselves, with power 
of their own, and consequently you get a false impression of them. 
That misconception is lack of knowledge, ignorance. Through 
false thoughts you get false conclusions. 



SPIRITUAL HEALING 19 

The whole problem of Christianity is the uncovering oi the true- 
Self, taking ofl these husks of error thought, false opinions, and 
seeing God and God's manifestations as they are in reality; and 
when you see them thus, you see only health, peace and satisfaction. 

SOURCE OF KNOWLEDGE. 

You do not get pure knowledge from books ; you do not gain 
absolute knowledge from the Bible. They are only guide-posts to 
show you the way. Knowledge is that illumination of Truth with- 
in you which shows you all things in their true nature and right re- 
lation, and all in unity. This knowledge is Consciousness. 

The authors of books express the decree of consciousness to 
which they have been receptive to the Light of God. If you have 
not unfolded to that same degree, their writings may awaken your 
consciousness so that the same facts they perceive may become 
truth to you. The fact must be born within you before it is truth 
to you. To illustrate : You may learn a rule in mathematics so as 
to be able to say it and yet lack the understanding of it, so that you 



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would be unable to apply it in a problem ; and to that extent you lack 
true understanding of it. When you truly know the rule you are 
conscious of its methods of operation. Hence consciousness is pure 
knowledge. 

INTELLECT AKD SPIBIT. 

Intellectual learning is superficial unless it is based upon spirit- 
ual or true knowledge. The one belongs to the realm of mentality 
which deals with the externalities, while the other deals with the 
living and vital substance in which the visible things are included as 
its expressions. 

The intellect is all right. It is given you for use, but do not 
think it is all. The faculties of the mind are but the avenues 
through which Spirit operates. See them as such, and you will not 
be confused by merely intellectual conceptions. There is a vast dif- 
ference between the light of the sun and the light of the moon. 
One is from the source of light, the other but a reflected light. So 
with Consciousness and intellectuality. Mental education is excel- 



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lent, but only so when it is for the better expression of that wisdom 
and power which is divine — the wisdom of God. 

The walls of human intellectuality must soon or late crumble 
before true Intelligence, Divine Wisdom, just as did the walls of 
Jericho. "Jericho" means "moon city." The light from the moon 
is reflected, and therefore weak. What kind of light is intellectual 
light? Moonlight, for it is not the direct light of Truth, coming 
from the Sun of Righteousness, the Spirit. 

It was "moonlight" that has always persecuted those who be- 
lieve in Truth regardless of established customs. It was "moon- 
light" that believed in witchcraft. It is "moonlight" that believes 
the body is the man. It is "moonlight" that believes in another pow- 
er besides the good. It is "moonlight" that believes in old age, loss 
of sight and hearing. It is "moonlight" that says certain diseases 
are incurable. It is "moonlight" that says anything is impossible. 
It is "moonlight" that says death is inevitable. In fact, it is this 
mental or intellectual "moonlight" which makes all your hard ex- 
periences. 



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Use your mental faculties as avenues of Divine Wisdom. Let 
God express through them, and you will be healed of all your in- 
firmities. Always remember that "It is not I (the intellectual per- 
sonality) but the Father within me, He doeth the works." 



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Healing a Bible Doctrine. 



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HEALING A BIBLE DOCTRINE. 

^f* EALING is a Bible doctrine. All through it runs the truth 

llU °^ ^ ie P ower °f God over ever y condition of the physical, 
i#J when that Power is permitted to express. People through 
* their short-sighted mentality determine what God can do 
and what He cannot do. Even the Emmanuel Movement limits God 
in the healing of disease, by declaring they will not take cases af- 
flicted with organic diseases — such must be treated by physicians. 
But as they see the power of God healing the minor forms of dis- 
ease, such as mental and nervous troubles, their vision of Truth 
will so enlarge that sometime they will accept the omnipotence of 
God. "With God all things are possible." "With God all things 
are possible" to man. 

Listen to Isaiah as he sees the time coming when the Healing 
Presence will be permitted by man to express through him : 

Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be 
unstopped. Then shall the lame leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing. — 
Isa. 35:56. 



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Matthew historically records the fulfillment of this prophecy. 
And Jesus demonstrated the Law to show us the way. 

When the even was come, they brought unto h::r. many that ••'■•ere possessed with 
devils, and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick: that 
it might be fulfilled which was spoken :y r.sa:i5 the prophet, saving. Himself t: 
infirmities, and bare our sicknesses. — Matt. 8:16, 17. 

And in that same hour he cured many of infirmities and plagues, and c: evil 
spirits; and unto many blind he gave sightl Then Jesus answering said unto 
Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard: how that the blind 
see. the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the 
poor the gospel is preached. — Luke 7:21, 12. 

When one does not see the right, but turns his attention to 
seeming outward conditions, just that far does he permit those con- 
ditions to control him. Thus he is oppressed of the "devil" (do- 
evil thought). 

When you let God become a consdotts reality* in you. you be- 
come aware of your Divine Power; you are one with it. and there- 
fore all power is given unto you. But remember this power comes 
onlv to vou in vour heaven — when vou are serene and harmonious 



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within ; it comes only when you are dwelling in your highest vis- 
ion of Truth. Then as a natural result, it becomes manifest, ex- 
pressed, in the visible — "and in earth." That power given in the 
consciousness within continues to operate in the without. 

Thus Jesus had power of healing: 

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who 
went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was 
with him. — Acts 10:38. 

If Jesus had not used that power, it would have accomplished 
no beneficient results. So you have that power, for, said Jesus, 
"Ye shall do greater works" even. x\re you using it? Begin now ! 
Whatever limitations you may seem to be in, begin to speak the 
word of Life and Health for someone else who needs it. Thus 
you take your thought off your body, your personal self, and in 
seeing and declaring the truth for another you expand your own 
consciousness into realization of that truth for yourself as well as 
for the other. 



28 SPIRITUAL HEALING 

THE LAYING ON OF HANDS. 

Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases 
brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them. 
— Luke 4:40. 

The hand symbolizes applied power. Jesus always met every 
one on their plane of consciousness. If a man did not see how he 
could be healed by the Spirit without some external means, Jesus 
promptly responded, but always emphasized that it was really their 
faith in God which did the work. Hence, to one he told to go and 
wash in the pool of Siloam; to another, to stretch forth his hand; 
with others, he laid his hands upon them. You figuratively lay 
your hands upon another when you apply the Divine Power in 
thought to awaken that one in consciousness to the living reality of 
the presence of God within him. The Bible frequently mentions 
the hand as symbolizing power. "The good hand of his God is 
upon him." "The hand of the Lord, it is mighty." "I will uphold 
thee with the right hand of my righteousness." 



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In treating cases we do not approve of laying the physical hands 
upon patients for two reasons. First, it draws the attention away 
from the true source of healing, which is the consciousness of 
God's Presence, to that of external means. Healing is spiritual 
awakening, and comes from within, not from without. Many peo- 
ple think they receive some healing force or magnetism through the 
hands of the healer, and so they do to a certain extent. But all 
true healing comes only through the awakening of the mind to 
Truth, and these magnetic vibrations are only temporary stimu- 
lants. They belong to and come from the physical, not of the 
Spirit. Many magnetic healers are far from being spiritually 
awakened. 

Where permanent results for betterment are secured, they come 
through the faith of the patient, looking back of the method to the 
All-Sufficiency, and thus becoming conscious of God as harmony in 
them. The Seventh Day Adventists practice healing through the 
laying on of hands, and the Mormons implicitly believe in Divine 
healing and practice it through the letter of the law. "Is there any 



30 SPIRITUAL HEALING 

sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let 
them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord : 
and the prayer of faith shall save the sick." 

It is through faith, you see, that satisfactory results come. 
First is the desire, the call of the afflicted, then the preparation 
through calmness and trust, of which oil is the symbol, and then 
through acceptance and appropriation of this living, harmonious 
Substance we call Spirit or God, one finds himself in perfect har- 
mony or health. 

The second reason why we do not recommend the laying on 
of hands physically is that the practitioner is always open to critic- 
ism, especially if the patient be of the opposite sex. Not that we 
believe in being subject or receptive to criticism, but in the words of 
Jesus it is better to "avoid even the appearance of evil." But that 
is a minor reason; the vital reason being that any external means 
draws the attention away from the inner Presence which is the true 
Source of healing. 



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People so often think they must do something physically, that 
they must apply some kind of plaster, swallow something, etc. It 
is a race-thought. Many physicians today give bread-pills instead 
of drug-pills, and the patient not knowing it improves through 
faith. As soon as you use any appliance outside of that which is 
simply for the protection and comfort of the body, such as clothing, 
you divide your attention and get mixed results. 

Yes, lay on the hand of faith, the hand of power, but let it be 
the spiritual hand through thought. 

CURING VS. HEALING. 

One may be cured of an ailment, but because his mind has not 
been illumined by Truth he may not be healed. Curing is simply 
glossing over, giving the appearance of health for a time, but the 
source of the ailment has not been removed from the mentality, and 
therefore is apt to return in even a more severe form. Healing 
comes through knowing the Truth, God, Life, Spirit. 



32 SPIEITUAL HEALING 

When you really know, you are one with it. If you are con- 
scious of your life being God's activity in you, then you know peace 
and harmony — and this is health. No one can take it away from 
you, for you are health itself. 

YOU CAN HEAL. 

Spiritual healing is Spiritual illumination. It is a knowledge of 
the Truth which brings into expression harmonious life, health, 
peace and joy. It reveals but One Presence and Power in all the 
Universe — the Good Omnipotent. It is God, "in whom we live, and 
move and have our being." It shows you that you are one with that 
Presence; that your life is God living you; that your body, your 
mentality, your will, are but the avenues in which and through which 
the Spirit is expressing. 

Every practitioner not only should but must be a teacher to do 
the "works." You are a teacher and healer if you are expressing 
the Truth you know. You are a healing presence if you are living 



SPIRITUAL HEALING 33 

the Truth. When you are living in your highest vision, people feel 
better when they are with you; they are uplifted, because of your 
harmonizing, or healing, influence. 

If you want to receive health, the law is that you must begin 
to express it, to give it to some one else, and the best way, if you 
have any physical ailment, is to try to heal some one. Do not work 
with yourself so much. We become too anxious and strive too 
hard to make ourselves perfect when we have nothing to do with it. 
That is, we deal with externals and try to make our bodies just so, 
and are disappointed, because we have not begun right. 

The only place to heal is in the consciousness. See God, and 
in seeing God, you see health of body as the true and eternal state 
of Being. Your body today is just what you picture God to be. 
That is, what you realize God to be. If you do not realize that God 
is perfection, you do not express perfection. As you see this per- 
fection it will begin to appear to you in the body. See God as all- 
pervading Substance, Health, Supply. 



34 SPIRITUAL HEALING 

And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the 
gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease 
among the people. — Matt. 4:23. 

Thus Jesus not only healed, but he enlightened first the minds 
of those he healed. His healing was permanent because of this 
foundation work. 

HEALING THROUGH THE APOSTLES AND OTHERS. 

Of course everyone knows that Jesus healed, but there are not 
so many who know that the apostles had that power. 

And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power over 
unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner 
of disease. — Matt. 10:1. 

They used the same preparatory work as did Jesus, that is, they 
taught the fundamental principles of Life and how they manifest. 

And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, 
and confirming the word with signs following. — Mark 16:20. 

And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among 
the people. There came also a multitude out of the cities round about Jerusalem, 
bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were 
healed every one. — Acts 5:12, 16. 



SPIRITUAL HEALING 35 

The "seventy" had power to heal, and exercised it. 

The Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face 
into every city and place, whither he himself would come. And heal the sick that 
are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you. — Luke 
10:1, 9. 

And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject 
unto us through thy name. — Luke 10:17. 



Stephen, Paul and others had the same power, being receptive 
to the Spirit and obedient to its leading. 

And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the 
people. — Acts 6:8. 

And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from 
his mother's womb, who never had walked: the same heard Paul speak: who steadfastly 
beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, said with a loud voice, 
Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked. — Acts 14:8-10. 



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FAITH THE FOUNDATION OF SPIRITUAL HEALING. 

But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. For to 
one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by 
the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing 
by the same Spirit. — I. Cor. 12: 8, 9. 

"The manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit 
withal." "God is no respecter of persons." "For God giveth not 
the Spirit by measure." "Neglect not the gift that is in thee. 5 ' 
"Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift 
of God." 

The "gift of the Spirit" is given to all. What does it mean, 
then, where it states to one is given one form of manifestation of 
the Spirit, to another a different form, etc. ? Because then, as now, 
people were expressing those qualities of Spirit to which they had 
become receptive. One may manifest the gift of healing, another 
the gift of knowledge, another the gift of interpretation; that is, 
we would say they have the talent for that thing. They all come 
from the one Source. It does not mean that you are not capable 



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of manifesting all of them. If you can express one, you can be the 
avenue for the expression of all by the same Spirit, if you open 
yourself to it. 

The requirement is faith. It is the prayer of faith that saves 
the sick. Belief, founded upon Truth, is the open door to faith, 
which is putting into active expression that belief. Faith is the 
laying hold of the reality. Knowing God as Health, reaching out 
in thought and taking hold of this Substance through understand- 
ing your oneness with it — this is the faith that brings wholeness 
into expression. 

BAPTISM. 

He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall 
be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe: In my name shall they 
cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and 
if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands upon the 
sick, and they shall recover. — Mark 16:16-18. 

Baptism is the cleansing of the mentality from all thoughts of 
limitation. This is the work of the Spirit when you let the Light 
of Truth into your mind, thereby expanding your consciousness so 



38 SPIRITUAL EEALIXG 

that you know the nothingness of these limiting mental conceptions. 
Most churches today recognize that outer baptism is but a "symbol 
of an inward work of grace."'' 

Hence, when you thus are baptised in the Spirit and exercise 
active faith in God. you no longer will think of your personality 
as of great importance., knowing that it is God in you doing the 
works. Then will you be the instrument through which Spirit will 
cast out all adverse conditions of the mentality (devils) ; speaking 
in the new languages of unity and love instead of the old tongues 
of evil, sorrow and suffering ; handling every event and thing in 
its true relation, and therefore be immune from any annoying ef- 
fect of externals; with power to awaken the consciousness of health 
in others as well as yourself. "These signs shall follow them that 
believe." That includes you. everybody — everyone who believes 
and is baptised in this consciousness. 



SPIRITUAL HEALING 39 



Noted Examples of Healing. 






SPIRITUAL SEALING 4J 



NOTED EXAMPLES OF HEALING. 

^JTHE Bible gives us many notable examples of healing through 
/| the power of God, when faith was exercised in its recep- 
^^ tion. You will notice the different methods in which faith 
was used. 
The leper was healed through his own faith. He had the as- 
surance within him that it could and would be done. 

And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, 
thou canst make me clean. And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, 
I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. — Matt. 8:2, 3. 

The palsied man was healed through the faith of others. We 
have no record that the man had any faith himself, but the con- 
sciousness of his friends so quickened his attitude of mind that he 
was receptive to the nature of Spirit and therefore was unified with 
it in health. 



42 SPIRITUAL HEALING 

And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and 
Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, be of good cheer; thy 
sins be forgiven thee. — Matt. 9:2. 

The question then comes to us, Can you help people who have 
no faith? It is better if they do have faith, but the lack of it is 
not a complete barrier to their being assisted. If they are not op- 
posed, they are receptive at least to a degree and therefore are en- 
larged in consciousness through your faith for them. They can 
shut the door of their minds, saying, "I will not listen to the Truth ; 
I do not want to know better; I will not believe what you say." 
But if they are desirous of help, of higher and better things, they 
will be receptive, at least non-resistant. 

Thus was the servant healed through the faith of the centurion. 

And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be 
it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour. — Matt. 8:13. 

SIN AND DISEASE. 

Sin and disease are the same. The sick man is a sinner. That 
is, he has missed the mark, he has not been living in that perfect 



SPIRITUAL SEALING 43 

consciousness which is wholeness. That is all sin is, a falling short 
of perfection. And since none have attained that absolute con- 
sciousness, one writer has declared, "All have sinned and come short 
of the glory of God." 

Every time you forget God and turn to externals, you miss the 
mark. Thus you see old age, failing sight, gray hairs, wrinkles, 
etc. These things creep into your mentality in so subtle a way that 
you do not realize that you have given them a false power over you. 
You have had your eyes shut to Truth. How many good things 
would we always see if we kept our eyes open for the Good ! 

And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go show yourselves unto the priests. 
And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed. — Luke 17:14. 

Thus were the ten lepers healed as they journeyed. They were 
obedient. As you yield your present will and are obedient to your 
higher vision, your limitations will fall away from you. They were 
cleansed before they got to the priests to show themselves. 



SPIB1TUAL HEALING 45 



Day of Healing Not Passed. 



SPIRITUAL HEALING 47 

DAY OF HEALINQ NOT PASSED. 

THE UNCHANGING CHARACTER OF GOD. 

^■■THE day of healing is not past. Now to you this needs no dis- 
/ 1 1 cussion. To others who do not recognize the living Truth, 
^^ this is not accepted as true. Many people go to a practition- 
er for treatment and are benefited; they get well, and then, 
being in this race-thought, they may say, "Well, I guess I would 
have gotten well anyway." If anyone questions the Spiritual Heal- 
ing of today, we meet them with a question like this : "Does God 
ever change? Does Law ever change? If two and two make four 
today, will they ever make anything else? Will two and two ever 
be five?" They might say, "No, of course not." Why? Because 
Law changes not. Well, Law is God, the same yesterday, today 
and forever. If God ever was Wisdom, God is Wisdom today. If 
God ever was Good, God is Good today. If God ever was Power, 



48 SPIRITUAL HEALING 

God is Power today. If God ever was these things, then God must 
ever be these things. He would not be God if He changed. If 
God could change, He might be God today and something else to- 
morrow. 

It says in one place in the Bible, which is true, that God cannot 
lie. "Why, if God is all power to do anything, why cannot He 
lie?" Because as soon as God would lie, he would not be God. If 
God is Good, God never could be bad. Otherwise He would destroy 
Himself as God. These are fixed and immutable laws. Xow if 
God is the same Presence and Power today as He was in the days 
of the Apostles, then the same activity of God through the Christ 
within you will accomplish the same works. The great essential 
thing is to get the consciousness that God is the same today and 
forever. 

A lady told me the other day that she went to her pastor and 
said to him, "You believe in the omnipresence of God, God every- 
where?" "Yes." "You believe God is the same yesterday, today 
and forever, never changes?" "Yes." "Do you believe in pray- 



SPIRITUAL HEALING 49 

er?" "Yes, certainly, of course I believe in prayer." "And you 
believe God answers prayer?" "Yes." "Then will you pray for 
me?" "Certainly, I will pray for you." "Will you pray that God 
may restore my health?" "Oh, God does not do that. The time 
for spiritual healing is past." "Why, I thought you said God never 
changes?" "Yes, I said that, but Jesus and the Apostles healed 
only to convince the people of the power of God, and that is not 
necessary today; that time is past." 

The nature and laws of God are always the same — "yesterday, 
today, and forever." What God ever was, God is today. If God 
ever manifested in healing power through man, He does so today 
if man will permit Him. 

HEALING IS NOW BEING PRACTICALLY DEMONSTRATED. 

You have all probably demonstrated over some ill within your- 
selves, in the consciousness of God. You have been blessed and up- 
lifted and helped by this recognition of God within you. You have 



50 SPIBITUAL HEALING 

seen others who have been healed. I have seen almost all these 
"divers diseases," as they are called, healed. There is nothing so 
distressing that you can imagine that has not been healed through 
the recognition of the presence of God as life and health. 

I knew a woman who had been on her bed for eleven years 
and had never set her foot on the floor in that time. She had be- 
come a great student of the Bible, and she was reading where God 
healed through the recognition of His power active within a person. 
Her husband had always left the Bible on a chair by her bed so she 
could get it, but one day he forgot it and left it on a table on the 
other side of the room. She recalled some of the passages about 
healing, and said, "If God can heal at any time, He can heal me 
now, and I am going to claim this for myself and get up and get 
that Bible." So she declared that the active power of God cleansed 
her and made her perfectly whole and complete. Then without 
stopping there, she immediately got up and walked. That was 
faith. If she had stopped to doubt, she would not have done it, 
but she got right up. She believed what she said. She went over 



SPIRITUAL HEALING 51 

and got the Bible, and was healed. Later she began to say, "I 
express God in every way and at every moment, and just as it comes 
to me to do, that will I do." 

Spiritual healing is not a questionable thing at all today. One 
year ago many people in the church would have denied it, but since 
the church has taken it up with us, there is no question, there is no 
doubt in the minds of men. They see that healing is being done. 

Now, healing is simply the opening or unfolding of conscious- 
ness to the Truth of God. If you could see yourself as you are in 
Truth this moment, you would be healed, because you are the image 
and likeness of God. You are just like a drop of water from the 
ocean. You are ocean water. You are not the ocean ; you are not 
God, but you are of the same nature, the same characcter, the sub- 
stance as God. When you know that fact, you will know that the 
manifestation is simply the expression of that Substance, and there- 
fore must be just as perfect as it is perfect. Therefore see the body, 
see your environment, see everything, as the perfect expression of 
this One Presence and Power. 



52 SPIRITUAL HEALING 



THE EMMAiNTJEL MOVEMENT. 



I do not know how the Christian church, so-called, lost the art 
of healing. It was practiced for three hundred years after Jesus 
disappeared from physical view, but then in some way it slipped 
away and they began to depend upon outer things for health. So 
now we are coming back to the first principles, and know — yes, 
know — that is, we are becoming conscious that this One Presence 
and Power is all there is. 

It will not be long until this doctrine of healing is known to be 
the doctrine of wholeness. The church is recognizing it. The 
churches which laughed at and scoffed at it are now saying that it 
is the doctrine of Jesus, but they are still holding to the doctrine of 
a God in heaven and the literal fact of disease and that the devil is 
a power. They say the body may be helped into a state of har- 
mony by right thinking, but they are limited in the scope of the 
healing. Yet as they come into the truth of healing they will come 
into greater understanding of God, and thus into the recognition 



SPIRITUAL HEALING 53 

of God's power in all cases. If God can heal your nervousness, God 
can heal even your broken bone, or so-called incurable disease. 

This Emmanuel Movement in the churches is meeting the plane 
of consciousness of their people, and is therefore doing great good. 
If their healing was based upon the absolute fact of God's omni- 
presence and omnipotence, it would not be accepted by their mem- 
bers in their present understanding, because they have been taught 
so long and have believed that it was out of the province of God to 
have anything to do with the body or conditions or environment; 
that God in some way or other had delegated that part of His bus- 
iness to physicians, while He attended to the spiritual welfare of 
the race. 

Do you remember where people were healed by turning to God, 
and King Asa would not listen, although he was afflicted with many 
ailments, but turned rather to the physicians ; and because he turned 
to them instead of to God, "Asa slept with his fathers." That is 
a hard arraignment of the physicians, but it is so recorded. 



54 SPIEIIUAL EEALIXG 

Now this Emmanuel Movement limits the scope of the work to 
meet the demands of those intellects which have been trained in the 
old way of thinking. They recognize that many of our so-called 
diseases are simply imaginary. These they call "mental diseases," 
and if you can get such an one to change his thought concerning 
himself, his body or his environment, his health will be recognized. 
Therefore, before they will take a case for healing you must first 
go to the physician, have him diagnose your case, and if he says it 
is not functional fthat is, not a disease of any organ), but is a nerv- 
ous or mental disease, existing really in your thought instead of as 
a fact, then they can heal you. We recognize that we do not do 
the work, but that it is God. They recognize this also, but they 
trust God just so far, and just that far they get the results. They 
heal just as far as they believe God works. 

It is a logical sequence that if God can heal a nervous 
disease, He can heal all diseases. They are demonstrating, and 
through these demonstrations will come the consciousness of the 
Truth. 



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Instantaneous Healing. 



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INSTANTANEOUS HEALING. 

tmv+ EALING may or may not be instantaneous. Since healing 
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TW the Truth, the cases of instantaneous healing have been on 
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It may not have been conscious unfoldment, but the tendency of the 
mind in aspiration or prayer, the earnest desire of the soul, to be 
that which it knows it is in reality, has been unfolding the soul until 
the moment when the realization comes. 

He laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them. — Luke 4:40. (See also 
Acts 5:16, given on page 34.) 

Now the hand is the symbol of power. When the lame man 
was healed by Peter and John (Faith and Love), Peter took him 
by the hand and raised him to his feet and he found his ankle bones 
firm and he leaped and shouted. That man had probably never 
thought it was possible for him to be healed, because he had been 



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GRADUAL UNFOLDMENT. 

The majority of the cases of healing by Jesus were not instan- 
taneous. Not that the power of God was limited, but simply that 
the people had to go step by step in unfoldment. They could see 
so far, and when they would get that far they would see more. It 
is just like climbing a mountain. The higher you get the greater 
the expanse of vision. 

And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when 
he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought. 
And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking. After that he put his hands 
again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every 
man clearly. — Mark 8:23-25. 

If you live to the highest conception of Truth you have today, 
you will be just that much higher up the mountain of Truth, and 
you will see that much more Truth to live. Through the exercises 
that you use today in living your highest conception of Truth will 
you gain strength to live that broader vision of Truth tomorrow. 



60 SPIRITUAL HEALING 

Hence, many cases were not healed instantly. Therefore, do 
not become discouraged if you or your patient are not healed in- 
stantaneously. "He took the blind man by the hand and led him 
out of the town." Out of sense confusion, away from these ex- 
ternal and disturbing conditions within ourselves. The blind man 
first saw men as trees walking, but later was restored and saw every 
man clearly. This is only one instance, but there are many. The 
man had to do his part, and he did just what Jesus told him to do. 
If he had not looked up when Jesus told him to; if he had said, 
"There is no use, I cannot see," he would not have received his 
sight. If you have an impulse within you toward the right, use it. 
If you believe God has power to heal you and make you perfect in 
consciousness, and therefore in manifestation, begin to act as though 
it were true. If you believe the Spirit of God sees through you and 
you do not have to depend upon physical organs, just begin to act 
that way. 

Judge H. H. Benson had been using glasses for eighteen years. 
One day he said to Mrs. Benson, "We are teaching the Law of God. 



SPIRITUAL HEALING 61 

that God is all and in all, and that through following the teachings 
of the Spirit we can become perfect in manifestation, and yet I am 
using physical means to help myself." He made up his mind that 
God saw through him, and he said, "If this be true, I have no busi- 
ness with these glasses, and I can read without them, because God 
is my sight." He took off the glasses and picked up a magazine 
and began reading, and he found then and there that he could read. 
The next Sunday at his meeting he said to his audience, "To prove 
to you the Truth of this, I want to read some of the finest print 
in this magazine." It was very small type and he read quite a se- 
lection to show that he could read without his glasses. He has not 
used them from that day to this. 

If you could absolutely realize that God is your hearing, the 
physical organs would respond to harmonize with that consciousness. 
But you have been living in the thought that there are these limita- 
tions which you now realize are false, but still the old thought clings 
to you and at times seems hard to overcome. That is just why we 
have these lessons in this school — a school where we are training 



62 SPIRITUAL HEALING 

our minds to realize these Truths, and as we come into that con- 
sciousness, little by little though it may be, we find these limitations 
will drop away. If you see absolute wholeness, you will see no de- 
ficiency in body, and that is the mission of earth-life — to unfold in 
consciousness that you may become in fact, in truth, the living ex- 
pression, the living sons of God. 

The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die. Jesus saith unto 

him, Go thy way; thy son liveth And as he was going down, his servants met 

him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth. Then enquired he of them the hour when 
he began to amend So the father knew that it was at the same hour. — John 4:50-53. 

Another case where healing was not instantaneous was the case 
of the nobleman's son. He began to improve at the hour when Jesus 
spoke the word for him. This was unfoldment in consciousness 
through the faith of the father. If you have any improvement 
whatever in your condition, see it as good and bless it ; recognize it. 
The more you recognize of the Good, the more you will see it, and 
soon the goodness will fill your whole vision. 



SPIRITUAL HEALING 63 



Necessary Steps to Healing. 



SPIRITUAL HEALING 65 



NECESSARY STEPS TO HEALING. 

ON THE PART OF THE PRACTITIONER. 

AS all power is derived from the one Source, the practitioner 
should never let his personality get in the way to obstruct 
that power. Personality is a mask behind, which one hides. 
It does not amount to anything, and any magnetism it may 
seem to give is vibrant with the thought- force of the mentality of 
the person. 

If you go about expressing your love and thanks and praise, 
you will unfold twice as rapidly as if you just quietly think it 
within yourself. Begin today to express it, to say it, to do it, and 
you will find an exhilarating influence which will make you radiant 
with joy, and you will send this radiance out to all your world. 
There is no limit to your power and influence through blessing and 
thanksgiving. 



56 SPIRITUAL HEALING 

To be Illumined. 

There is a Spiritual influence which is not mixed with mental 
vibration, which anyone will radiate if he lives in conscious unity 
with the highest. This is the activity of God in the individual con- 
sciousness, giving illumination to the mentality so that it no longer 
"'thinks of itself more highly than it ought to think;" so that it sees 
itself as the avenue for the expression of Wisdom, Life, Love and 
Power, and nothing in and of itself ; so that it sees back of the man- 
ifestation into the very Substance of which it is the expression; so 
that it sees, therefore, everything in its true nature and relation. 

Hence, you must turn often to the Light of Truth within. Live 
in this Light constantly. This gives unfoldment in consciousness, 
for God is that Light. "The Lord is a lamp unto my feet, and a 
light unto my path." "The entrance of thy words giveth light." 
"The Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting- light." "I (Conscious- 
ness, God) am the light of the world." "Now are ye light in the 
Lord : walk as children of light." 



SPIRITUAL HEALING 67 

Steadfastness. 

It is necessary that you be steadfast in your attitude and 
thought. Don't waver, for "he that wavereth is like a wave of the 
sea driven with the wind and tossed." Keep your eye single to the 
good and true. Refuse to see or recognize anything which seems 
opposite, for if you see double, if you permit yourself to think that 
you see both good and evil, your outpicturing will be mixed in ac- 
cordance with your vision. "A double-minded man is unstable in 
all his ways." 

Be faithful to the highest you know, and more Truth will be 
constantly revealed to you. Cultivate the habit of being steadfast 
in every detail, to your slightest word, to everything you promise. 
This will bring the doing. "A faithful man shall abound with bless- 
ings." "He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in 
much." "Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmov- 
able, always abounding in the work of the Lord." 



68 SPIEITUAL HEALING 

Basing Every Decision upon Principle. 

To be steadfast and faithful, you must always base your every 
decision upon Principle. If you give your attention to appearance 
of externals, and say, "I do not know whether I can make a success 
or not," or "whether this case can be healed or not," you are not 
basing your decision upon Principle. "Judge not according to the 
appearance, but judge righteous judgment." If you are in doubt 
concerning anything, always go back to the very fundamental prin- 
ciples of Being. Since God is omnipresent, and God is Life, then 
Life is everywhere. Since God is Good, and you are alive, the 
Life in you is good. Since God is omnipotent, all power is resident 
in Life, for God is Life. Since God is perfect Harmony, the Life 
in you is Health, for Health is Harmony expressed. 

See as God sees ; think always on the Godward side. By doing 
this, the opinions of the race concerning disease or any limitation 
will have no effect upon you. This does away with the mental con- 
clusions of physicians, your friends and all others. Stick to the 
Truth. 



SPIRITUAL HEALING 69 

Knowing the One Power. 

Know no power but that of Life, which is God. Therefore, 
there is only the one Power in any kind of weather. When you 
fear catching cold, you are mentally thinking that there is an ad- 
verse power to the Good. This is the "adversary" or "devil," and 
your false conclusions picture forth inharmony. Give your whole 
attention to the Good, and there will be no place in your thought 
for the bad. See God, and you will know only the power of Life, 
ever beneficient, in every phase of expression. 

Faithfulness. 

The practitioner must speak the Word of Truth in faith and 
confidence. This sets into activity in yourself and the one treated 
the consciousness, or pure knowing, of the Truth perceived, and 
that Truth, when really known within, sets free from limitation, 
for such limitation is then seen as merely a false thought interpreta- 
tion which the Light dissolves. 



70 SPIRITUAL HEALING 

"He sent his word and healed them." "He that hath my word, 
let him speak my word faithfully." Everyone may be a healer — 
yes, should be. Hearken unto the voice of God within you, then 
speak forth the Truth given thee, for it will set free and heal. 
"Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the Lord hath spoken." 
"O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord." "Which things 
also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but 
which the Holy Spirit teacheth." "If any man teach otherwise, and 
consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus 
Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; he is 
proud, knowing nothing." "So shall my word be that goeth forth 
out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall 
accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing 
whereto I sent it." 

Adhere to this living Word of God. It is what does the work. 
Jesus said it so plainly. "It is not I, but the Father within me He 
doeth the works." "I of mine own self (personality) can do noth- 
ing." Why look to me as a man? Look to the God I express. 



SPIEITUAL HEALING 71 

Let God into your mind, for you control the admission of con- 
sciousness. Then you will become a radiating healing center. You 
can heal if you will "take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of 
the Spirit, which is the word of God." Get the consciousness of 
the oneness of Life, of God in everything, and when you see it and 
realize it, your illumination will shed a light through others which 
will dispel and drive away all shadows. You are doing healing 
every day when you recognize the Truth, when you give a good 
word, a pleasant smile, brushing away the clouds of sense concep- 
tion to make life happier and sweeter and brighter. 

Speak the Word. "Hold fast the form of sound words." 
"Holding forth the Word of Life." Do it faithfully. If you have 
a stated time for treatments, never neglect it ; be orderly, punctual, 
steadfast. And faithfully means full of faith. Expect the Word 
of God spoken through you to accomplish its work. Do not, how- 
ever, work for outward results. It is the enlightenment of the 
mind which is needful, for through knowledge comes correct vis- 
ion, and the outer expression will conform to it. 



72 SPIRITUAL HEALING 



Perfect Confidence. 



"Have faith in God." After speaking the Word, let it drop 
from thought. This shows you really have confidence in the pow- 
er of God, but if you revert to it time and again it shows you are 
doubtful, anxious, wavering. Rest assured that the living words of 
Truth DO accomplish the purpose whereunto they are sent. Speak 
the Word. Let the manifestation alone; it will show forth at the 
right time. You have nothing to do with the physical demonstra- 
tion. 

People sometimes come to a healer for treatment, saying that 
they have no faith, but the very fact that they come shows faith. 
In a great many cases it is according to the faith in the patient 
whether he is healed, but as a practitioner you should be very care- 
ful to have the utmost implicit faith, because if you do not your 
patient will feci the doubt within you. If you have faith, if you 
realize the all-sufficiency in God's presence right here and now, your 
patient exercising what little faith he may have, will catch the light 



SPIRITUAL HEALING 73 

of Truth from your consciousness, and it will so illumine his mind 
that he will see clearly the "fullness which filleth all." 

Non-resistance. 

However antagonistic others may be to you, be sure you keep 
calm and serene. Keep yourself in the thought of Love, and noth- 
ing will harass or disturb you. With Jesus, "suffer it to be so 
now," knowing all things are working for good. To oppose, even 
in thought, will draw to you conflict. Love, and it will transform 
all opposition into co-operation. The teaching of Jesus was that 
of Love; his practice was that of non-resistance. We find his 
teaching and practice just as productive of good results in us today 
as they were then. The law of returning good for evil, if used, 
will bring peace and satisfaction. Take that which comes to you 
in meekness, yet in that meekness be strong, and you will be the 
better for the experience. 



74 SPIRITUAL HEALING 

Lead to Knowledge and Practice of Truth. 

As much as possible lead the patient to a knowledge and prac- 
tice of Truth. Herein lies the value to him. A treatment is the 
recognition and declaration of the presence of God in the individual. 
It is the quickening or awakening of the consciousness to the Su- 
preme Fact of the Universe. Have the patient practice this Pres- 
ence, talking and walking with God; that is the secret of realizing 
health. As the blacksmith's arm becomes strong through wielding 
the hammer, so the inherent Divine powers of the mind become 
strong through the practice of Truth. Love, joy, peace, long-suf- 
fering, gentleness, goodness, faith — these are the fruit of the Spirit 
the patient should practice, and this is the highway to health. 



SPIRITUAL HEALING 75 

NECESSARY STEPS TO HEALING. 

ON THE PART OF THE PATIENT. 

Sincere Desire to be Healed. 

NOW what must be the part of the patient? First must be 
the desire to be healed; and I want to tell you that desire 
is the moving force for every activity in earth life. Desire 
is good. But one should be careful not to desire things for 
the things themselves. They are of value only as they minister to 
the comforts and joys of life. Those who desire things as things 
and get them are seldom happy in their possession. 

Good does not come to you through force of will. If you 
want something and it is best for you, be receptive to Spirit, and 
God will provide you with it. Strenuous effort is unnecessary; in 
fact, it is a hindrance, for anxiety is a contracting and binding 



76 SPIRITUAL HEALING 

mental influence in your life; it shuts out your clear vision. Sub- 
merge the personal will in the Universal Will. How much broader 
and better to say, "Thy will, not mine, be done," than to say, "I 
determine that this I desire shall come to me." Yes, you may get 
it that way, your personal will dominating those of others, but it is 
likely, more likely than not, to be disappointing and unsatisfactory. 

Receptivity. 

True desire is a willingness to receive that which is best for 
you, regardless in what form it may come. By mentally formulat- 
ing the thing you think you need, you may be closing the door to 
a much larger inflow. For instance, suppose you think you need 
$100 for some purpose, and you will that that amount shall come 
to you. You really might need $1,000, or could use it to good pur- 
pose, yet by fixing the amount in thought, you would limit the in- 
flow to your decision. The attitude of true desire is: "I rec- 
ognize God as all substance, here and now awaiting my recognition 
and appropriation, and that substance is now active in my con- 



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sciousness and brings into my manifestation abundantly just that 
which I need." There is no mental formulation about that, and 
therefore no limitations as to how Spirit as Abundance shall mani- 
fest in you. 

Faith. 
According to your faith be it unto you. — Matt. 10:29. 

Faith is this practical, literal seeing God, Life, Spirit, Substance, 
right here and now. All must come to this knowledge, from the 
least to the greatest, in one way or another. If not through con- 
scious aspiration (desire, prayer), then through experience, through 
"hard lines." "Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the 
least to the greatest." According to the degree of your acceptance 
and use of this Presence, which is active faith, it is established unto 
you. If you know God as Life and Harmony, you have Health, 
you are Health. If you know God as Abundance, you lack no good 
thing. It depends upon your faith. 

But suppose you do not have this perfect faith? There is a 



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way to attain it. Listen: Desire it, aspire to it, pray for it. Be- 
gin to use what little faith you have, and it will grow. So the pa- 
tient, to be healed, must first have the sincere desire. Now that 
may be merely a selfish motive. He has discomfort in his body, 
and he wants ease. The part of the practitioner is then to show 
him that that is not the chief aim of life, but that there is some- 
thing broader and better, something higher. He wants healing 
because he really desires something back of that healing, and that 
is the consciousness or knowledge of God. And this is true heal- 
ing. Since disease is the effect of ignorance or lack of knowledge, 
the remedy is knowledge or consciousness. 

Healing is the unfoldment in consciousness wherein you see 
harmony, which is the nature of Life. The only time you see dis- 
ease is when you do not see God. Jesus recognized this, and said 
in substance, "If you want to become happy, contented, harmonious, 
full of health and holiness, or wholeness, you must constantly as- 
pire to and live your high desire to know and be like God." He 
expressed it in these words, "Pray without ceasing" — and what is 



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the rest, which you so often forget? — "and in everything give 
thanks." No matter what the experience may be, be thankful for 
the lesson it brings you. This must be the constant, daily and 
hourly, attitude of mind. 

How are you to get that attitude? You so often get off the 
track ? The only way you can get anything done is by giving it at- 
tention, so if you want this attitude you must give your attention to 
it. This is your life-work — to become conscious of the reality of 
God as your source, life, substance and power, as your all. This 
requires the earnest desire, which in this high realm is called as- 
piration. Paul, that great metaphysician, recognized the law of un- 
foldment through right-thinking. "Whatsoever things are true, 
whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever 
things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are 
of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, 
think on these things." Give them your attention to the exclusion 
of any seeming opposites, and you will become conscious of them 
as living realities within you. 



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All Thing's Possible Through Faith. 

Tesus saith unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that 
believeth.— Mark 9:23. 

But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. — Jas. 1:6. 

There is nothing impossible. There is no disease which cannot 
be healed by the Spirit through your faith. But it is — "If thou 
doubt not." 

And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, 
and do those things which are pleasing in his sight. — I. John 3:22. 

For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou 
removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe 
that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. 
—Mark 11:23. 

The Prayer of Faith. 

And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and 
if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. — James 5:15. 

And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. — 
Matt. 21:22. 



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Aspiration is the prayer of faith. And "whatsoever ye shall 
ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive." But it must be for more 
than personal gain. If you pray simply for money for yourself, 
for selfish ends, so that you mav become opulent, so that you may 
dress and go in the finest class where you will be looked up to, your 
prayer may be answered but most probably will not. The only way 
for such a prayer to be answered is through the domination of the 
will over those who are susceptible to it. 

Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe 
that ye receive, and ye shall have. — Mark 1 1 :24. 

You may draw to yourself definite things — money, houses, 
lands. I have known it to be done through the will sending out the 
word in that strong personal way, someone receiving the suggestion 
and responding to it. But you readily see that that is not the oper- 
ation of Spirit through you, and you do not receive the blessing 
from the things you desired after you possess them. 



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The prayer of faith must be the activity of the God-conscious- 
ness in you for more universal ends. What you need you must ask 
for in this consciousness. Quit worrying about your rent, and what 
you are going to eat next week. Know the allncss of God, know 
God as Supply as well as Health. Rest confidently in God. Dis- 
miss these anxieties and worries. Look steadfastly to the Light. 
Keep your face to the sun and the shadows will flee from your 
thoueht and environment. 



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Works Accompanying Faith. 

Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. Yea. a man may say. 
Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith without thy works, and I will 
show thee my faith by my works. — Jas. 2:17, 18. 

James, the apostle, was intensely practical. When those before 
him had perceived the beauties of faith, hope and love, he realized 
the truth that they were but theories unless put into practice. He 
said, "If you will show me your faith without your works, I will 
show you my faith by my works." "Faith without works is dead." 



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Activity in Expression. 

Faith increases by exercise. If you can heal someone of a 
headache, but do not think you have the realization of God's pres- 
ence in a case of tuberculosis, why, go ahead and heal the head- 
ache. Do what you can and more consciousness will be given you. 
There is always something for you to do, and you must meet it. 
If you will not do it willingly, then you must through compulsion. 
Take the better way. 

Examples of Active Eaith. 

Let us look tor a moment at just a few of the examples of the 
activity demanded of the patient before he was healed. There is al- 
ways a condition to every promise; you must do your part. Will- 
ing obedience is the tool of faith. 

The man with the withered hand stretched it forth when he 
was bid. The lame man obeyed, and arose. The woman with an 
issue of blood touched his garment. The blind man washed in the 
pool of Siloam "and came seeing." Lazarus came forth from the 
grave in response to the Word. 



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Absent Healing. 



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ABSENT HEALING. 

^f/F you could only realize the all-pervading Presence, the Sub- 

41 stance of God, how changed things would be! If you could 

^£P but realize that God, Mind, Spirit, the Universal, fills every 

atom, what a different attitude you would have to everybody 

and everything! 

None of us recognizes fully the oneness of Life and Love and 
Goodness and Health and Purity, and to the degree that we do not, 
we fall short of Perfection. 

OMNIPRESENCE. 

Get into the consciousness that All-Substance, Spirit, God, fills 
all. It fills you, it fills me. If you could but realize, even for a 
moment, that God is ALL — all of you, all of everything, it would 
work a revolution right here and now. "Then shall thy light break 
forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily." 



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Truth always existed, although we perceived it not. Electricity 
always was, although we waited thousands of years before man dis- 
covered it. The electric light was always potentially present, but 
not manifest. The consciousness of Edison was unfolded in the 
quietness of his own mind. He did not go about proclaiming what 
he expected to do, that from the air and substance he would pro- 
duce a force which he could convert into light. It was not with 
the purpose of self-praise or personal gain that he developed and 
brought forth into manifestation the electric bulb, but it was from 
the broader, the universal Self, for the benefit of mankind that he 
worked. And the signs have followed him just as surely as the 
different signs of the Presence of God followed the Apostles. If 
Bell had proclaimed that he would produce an apparatus through 
which two persons hundreds of miles apart could talk to each other 
plainly, the world would have thought him possessed of a devil. 
That is just what occurred in the early days of this country in 
Massachusetts, where people who had become unfolded in mind so 
that they could see the truth of Being, of nature, when they ex- 



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pressed this truth they were called witches and they suffered perse- 
cution therefor. 

Today we recognize that the one literal Substance, visible and 
invisible, pervades the universe, all space ; that while we look out at 
the sky and it seems empty, yet we know it is filled with substance ; 
that it is the vibration of the particles of so-called matter that gives 
us the light and heat from the sun. Yet there is a finer Substance 
than that. The material scientist will take any substance and con- 
vert it into its elements, and these elements into molecules, and the 
molecules into atoms and the atoms into ions or monerons, and there 
he stops. 

He says, "That is as far as I can go, but I know that if I can 
reduce matter that far it can still be reduced back into some pres- 
ence, some substance which is not tangible to the senses." That is 
Spirit. 

We think things are solid, but they are not. You can take a 
cup of water and put a cupful of sugar into that full cup of water 
without overflowing it. Many people say that would be impossible. 



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Now the sugar dissolves and it is not joined with the water. The 
particles of saccharine simply take their place between the molecules 
of water. The molecules of the water are just as separate as the 
molecules of the air, and the sugar simply rests between. Take a 
piece of gold and a piece of lead and lay them on a table several 
inches apart, and after a time you will find that the chunk of lead 
is shot through with particles of gold, and the gold shot through 
with particles of lead. It shows that the substance we call solid is 
not solid at all. We used to think our flesh was a mass of solid 
flesh, but there has been found an apparatus by which we can pro- 
duce a strong light and see right through the body. This is the 
X-ray. 

We are just on the verge of the discovery of more wonderful 
laws of life; of life's composition, its methods, its workings. We 
are becoming to realize that Substance is not something dead, but 
the living, vital presence — God, All-Intelligence. Every atom and 
cell of the body is intelligent, and if there seems any trouble or in- 
harmony in the body you may talk directly to that portion, and the 



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cells, being intelligent, hear what you say; and if you have confi- 
dence in your word, these cells will respond to your word. They 
accept your degree of faith, or confidence; of your consciousness 
of the Truth. 

Like a pebble dropped into the ocean, the effect of which will 
be felt by every other drop, you can touch consciously this Intelli- 
gent Substance at any point, and every other point will respond. 
In Spirit, or God, there is no time or space, and no limitation; these 
are mental conceptions. 

NO LIMIT TO THOUGHT-FORCE. 

You cannot drop a pebble into the ocean without affecting every 
drop of water in the ocean. Yea, more; without affecting every 
atom in the universe, because the vibration set up by the pebble in 
the water, causing one drop or molecule to strike another, communi- 
cates that vibration to the next and so on. There are instances in 
this country where our delicate instruments have recorded earth- 
quake shocks which were not known to us for hours or days after- 



92 SPIRITUAL HEALING 

ward. The vibration was so delicate that it was unnoticeable to 
us, yet the finely-constructed instrument perceived and recorded it. 
So your own influence (every thought being a force) has its vibra- 
tion, and we do not know where it ends, if it ever does. 

CONCENTRATION. 

You become conscious of a thing by giving it attention, by 
turning your thought to it. You see a little ant crawling on the 
sidewalk. You give it no attention except to call it a little insect, 
but there are wonders almost untold in that little creature. It is 
filled with intelligence which it manifests in its life, and is endowed 
with physical power far exceeding, in comparison, to that of man. 

Intelligence — Wisdom expressed — is manifest in every other 
form of Life. There is nothing which is not truly wonderful from 
the plane of the mentality. The blade of grass, the clod of dirt, 
the sparkling diamond, are each expressing the same Life, the same 
Wisdom, the same Power, in different degrees. To come into con- 
scious unity with Life in its every expression, you must turn 



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your attention to the one and only Presence which is Life. If you 
desire to know about Spirit, if you really desire to know Spirit, the 
Reality of which things of every form are but the expression, you 
must give IT your attention. 

This is Concentration, and it is the open door to realization. 
To get rid of the seeming limitations of sense, see the joyous free- 
dom and fullness of Spirit. You will always see what you look for. 
If sin, poverty, sickness, have been giving you distress, stop looking 
at them! How? By turning your thoughts to just the opposite. 
See — determine within yourself that you will see only the Good, 
that you will see only Abundance, that you will see only Harmony. 

Turn your thoughts from duty. That is a hard word. When 
you think of a thing as a duty, it becomes irksome, hard. Look at 
it as an opportunity, a privilege, and it becomes easy and enjoyable. 
All things are to you according to your attitude toward them, as you 
look at them. If you will thus do away with the thought of duty, 
supplanting it with the idea of joyous opportunity, you will trans- 
form your world, for you have then been transformed yourself by 



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"the renewing of your mind." You have let in the light of Truth. 

THE RENEWING OF THE MIND. 
Incidents come to you every day which seem to draw your at- 
tention to the external, to the so-called hard things of life, and you 
look at those conditions and complain. The more you do so, the 
harder those conditions become ; so, for a little time, even once a 
week, you will find it a great help to turn your attention consciously 
to that which lies back of all things, the Source, the Substance, and 
by contemplating It, you will find that all these outer things change 
to you. I do not mean that they change. The change is in you. 
You have probably seen people whom at first you did not like, and 
yet, upon being associated with them, you find in time that that im- 
pression was erroneous, and you come to like them. Now the 
change is not in that person ; it is in you — your attitude, your con- 
sciousness is expanded. 

One writer in the Bible said that when you have this enlarged 
sciousness all things become new. Old things have passed away : 



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your old ideas, your conceptions of these things have changed; they 
no longer appear what they once seemed. In other words, he says 
when you have become conscious of the Living Substance in these 
things, that which you once hated now you love. 

It is an individual question. How things appear to you de- 
pends upon how you are looking at them. No two persons see 
things alike. It depends upon the unfoldment of the individual 
consciousness. That which may be true to you may not be true 
to me, because in your present stage of unfoldment you may per- 
ceive that which is true, but which to me in my present plane of 
unfoldment I have no conception of. If you are in advance of the 
race, you are a preparer of the way, you are a forerunner, and 
through your influence you draw the whole race after you. 

BECOMING ATTUNED. 

When two persons are in accord, when they are attuned, won- 
derful results can be attained. Strike a note on one piano and the 



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same note on another piano will respond. It catches the vibration 
because it is in unison. 

The method used in wireless telegraphy is exactly the same as 
in absent treatment. If we had a Marconi tower in Denver and I 
wanted to send a message to Kansas City, how would Kansas City 
receive that message instead of Pueblo? Each station has a key- 
note all its own. Suppose Denver is on the key of C, and Kansas 
City on the key of D, and Pueblo on E. To reach Kansas City this 
instrument would have to be attuned to the key of D, and then they 
would be in perfect unison. If Pueblo at the same moment was 
trying to call Kansas City and had attuned its instrument to the 
same key, it would receive the message, too, because it would be in 
perfect unison. 

So in absent treatment, we call the name of the person we de- 
sire to help. That is their keynote. Suppose your name is Mary. 
That stands for your nature, your character. The surname repre- 
sents the family name, or the name of the species. Your individual 
name to which you respond is your given name. So we always 



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want the first name of the person to be treated. When we call that 
name we attract his or her inner attention, we have keyed our 
"wireless telegraph instrument" to their keynote. Now we are in 
unison. It awakens the consciousness so that they are attentive 
and respond. Then we speak the word of wholeness, and their in- 
strument, their consciousness, records that word of Truth on their 
inner consciousness. 

It is an impression, and that impression is just like a photo- 
grapher's impression of an object upon a sensitive plate. It is 
there. All it needs is developing, and you will have a picture, a 
demonstration. 

Now if there is any other person by the same name, his inner 
consciousness will be awakened to attention also. He may not 
hear or know anything in the external, yet that inner something 
is awakened, and if he is responsive he will receive the same treat- 
ment. 

A treatment is universal. It is an opening, a freeing and up- 
lifting influence, and as you give that you have cut asunder every 



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bond or limitation in whatever way it may have been pictured 
in the mentality of that person. 



SPEAKING THE WORD. 

When you speak the word of Truth, this Universal Substance 
being all-intelligence and all-presence, you speak to the entirety of 
that Intelligence, and while through man's own conception of lim- 
itation it seems to take a certain degree of time for the words to 
be carried on the telegraph wire, yet in Truth there is no such lim- 
itation ; it is instantaneous. 

We find that in the transfer of thought, called telepathy. You 
may send a message to another mentally and that one instantly 
gets it if he is receptive to your thought. You have all prob- 
ably at some time thought of something, and just as you expressed 
it someone else would say, "I just thought of that." That is in- 
stantaneous. It is thought transference, telepathy. Do you won- 
der then at the results accomplished by Jesus when he sent his word 



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and healed? He simply set into operation the consciousness of 
Truth, and it is the Truth which heals. 

So it matters not how far away your friends may be, you are 
in immediate touch with them. To get the best results, however, 
it is always better if the one who needs help should know of your 
intention to treat him, for this reason: he then holds himself in 
receptivity and openness of mind to receive your word of Truth. 
Where one does not know anything of the laws of healing, does not 
even want to know, it may take longer to reach him in our concep- 
tion of time, but the consciousness can be awakened. 

You may reach that one by speaking the word of Truth for 
him, but if he is antagonistic he will not receive immediate benefit 
from it. Never be discouraged in speaking the Word. Remember 
this : there will surely come a time when that one will earnestly de- 
sire within himself to receive enlightenment, upliftment, and that 
desire is an openness, a receptivity, and when he reaches that point, 
your word which you have spoken will be received and accepted by 
him. But your word must be spoken in the universal sense. You 



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have no right to try to compel that one to do so and so, according 
to your view. 

SPIRITUAL, NOT HYPNOTIC, TREATMENT. 

Your mission is to present the living, eternal Truth, not to try 
to force its acceptance by others. Will-force is akin to hypnotism. 
You have no moral or other right to exercise will-power to force 
another to do, or refrain from doing, what you see is best. The 
object of Spiritual treatment is the awakening of the mind of the 
individual to the consciousness of Truth, of God, leaving its accept- 
ance or rejection optional with the one treated. 

I thoroughly agree with Charles Brodie Patterson in this 
declaration : 

"Every thought that enters the mind of man must to some de- 
gree affect his life, either for good or the reverse. All true sug- 
gestion, then, must have for its aim the presentation of the Truth 
and nothing but the Truth. Evil is overcome only by good. It is 
onlv as the heart of man becomes fixed on the eternal realities of 



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Life and Truth that evil disappears; and it is only as the sunshine 
of God's love enters the mind of man that the unreal shadows of 
life vanish." 

"Therefore be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in 
the work of the Lord." See only God, declare only the Good. Be 
convinced within yourself that God is omnipresent, omniscient, om- 
nipotent. Be positive in this. Then will your consciousness radiate 
the Light of Truth which will illumine the minds of all who are 
seeking and aspiring, and in that Light will the thought-projections 
of sin, sickness and lack vanish as the darkness. 

You can speak the Word for anyone, and as you speak that 
Word you are giving yourself a treatment. 

Have confidence in your word! Your friend in California is 
just as close to you as the one right here, because he is in the same 
One Presence or Spirit. That Presence is omnipresent and all- 
intelligent. 

Spiritual treatment, then is for the purpose of awakening the 
Truth inherent within man, through which he will understand the 



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laws of Life, and hence become the perfect expression of it. Change 
the thoughts of man to this true knowledge, and the body and en- 
vironment will respond to meet that perfect conception. Therefore 
wc do not treat the body ; wc do not treat disease; we do not treat 
circumstances, or poverty. We do not treat against anything. These 
conditions are indicative of a false mental state. By changing this 
mental state through consciousness of Truth healing takes place. 



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The Silence. 



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THE SILENCE: OUR CHAMBER OF PEACE. 

Here is where you and God commune together. "In quietness 
and peace shall be thy strength." In this "secret place of the Most 
High" within your own being you come into conscious unity with 
God. 

The Silence is not inactivity, neither is it a place of strenuous 
effort. You cannot take the kingdom of God by violence. The 
activity is that of the Holy Spirit when you still the physical senses. 
When you enter this sacred realm you must drop all opinions and 
conclusions as to how God shall bring into expression that which 
you need. Your attitude must be, "Not my will, but Thine, be done." 
Then will you hear that "still, small voice," which, if you will faith- 
fully follow it, will direct you, sustain you, protect you. 

You may not hear anything with your physical ears — you 
probably will not, but you will feel an impression or an impulse to 
do; you will receive a conviction of the right way; or you will know 
without any process of mental reasoning — which is called intuition. 



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Accept any or all these methods as the "voice" of God, and as 
you do so more light will be given you. 

All desire springs from within. That inner something which 
desires is your very being. Since God is the Source, Love is the 
ruler of your kingdom. Through the nature and power of Love all 
things you need to better express the Infinite Presence of which you 
are the manifestation are drawn to you. Love attracts ; hate repels. 

Health, wisdom, life, power, strength, the abundance of every 
good thing needful, will be given you if you carry out the rightful 
law of procedure — "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His 
righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you." 

The essential thing is the consciousness of God within you — 
now, and the rest will follow as a natural sequence. This gives you 
dominion over all things, over sense desires, and every condition of 
the body and environment. 

In this positive, strong, masterful attitude of mind everything 
is seen in its true light, perfect, good, harmonious. Then there is 
nothing to disturb, since peace reigns throughout your realm. 



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HOW TO ENTER THE SILENCE. 

First — Retire every day to a quiet room alone, detaching 
yourself from everyone and everything for at least a few minutes. 
Eemain only so long as you are alive to your subject. Just as 
soon as interest lags, stop. Do not try to force concentration. 
As you proceed in development you will find it easier to remain 
longer with deeper interest. But while you are there, be alone in 
thought with God, your Father, in the Silence. 

Second — Take a restful position, and relax all your physical 
body, breathing deeply and rapidly for a few moments. This 
awakens the entire body and gives it ease. 

Third — Shut out all your daily thoughts and cares, allowing 
none of the anxieties that harass you to occupy your mind. Bar 
the door against all sensation; and any bodily, mental or moral 
imperfections. See yourself perfect as the child of God. 

Fourth — When you have become calm and peaceful, take some 
thought of Truth and hold it in the mind, and think upon it to 
the exclusion of all other thoughts. Give yourself up to it, and 
endeavor to realize what it means to you. 



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Fifth — Do not attempt to force the thought. Just let it fill 
you, pulsate through your being, and gradually a sweet rest and 
peace will come over you, and you will feel the Infinite Life vi- 
brating through you, the Infinite Mind thinking through you, and 
the Infinite Love loving through you, till Life and Health and 
Strength and Love will overflow your entire being. 

Sixth — Definitely declare your wholeness, your health, your 
peace, your abundance. Speak thus for any others you desire to 
help. 

Seventh — Always close your Silence with thanks and praise 
to this Infinite Presence for your realization. 

HOW TO PRAY. 

Prayer is the opening of the way to the inflow of Spirit into 
your consciousness. It is the earnest, sincere desire reaching out for 
God, and faith is the laying hold of God. Prayer is an inner atti- 
tude ; it may never begiven audible expression. All people pray. 

But how pray aright? How pray that it may be answered? 
Listen: "When thou prayest, enter into thy closet (turn your at- 



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tention within), and when thou hast shut thy door (every physical 
sense), pray to thy Father (Source) which is in secret; and thy 
Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly (bring it forth 
into manifestation)." 

But you don't know what to say? Listen to the model prayer 
given by Jesus, placing it in the positive, present tense for immediate 
realization : 

"Our Father (Creator, Source of all) whch art in heaven (per- 
fect harmony of mind), hallowed (whole, holy) is thy name (char- 
acter, nature). Thy kingdom (rulership, dominion in us) is come. 
Thy will is done in earth (expression) as it is in heaven (conscious 
harmony). Thou givest us this day our daily bread (all sustenance). 
Thou forgivest us our debts as we forgive our debtors. (Only as 
you forgive are you forgiven — the law of perfect balance). Thou 
leadest us not into temptation, but dost deliver us from all evil: 
For Thine is the kingdom and the power, and the glory, forever. 
Amen." 



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No amount of thinking, in the silence or elsewhere, can change 
the verity of Truth, for Truth is changeless. If 2 plus 2 equal 4, 
they can never equal 5, or there would be no truth or law of mathe- 
matics. Prayer, then, does not change Truth, or induce God to give 
you something or to do something for you. 

Prayer, however, does change your attitude to God, and the 
desire instead of being for personal ends becomes instead an aspira- 
tion for fuller and better expression of God through you. Prayer 
enlarges your consciousness so that you see with a clearer vision, and 
thereby you become fitted to receive the thing needful for that more 
perfect manifestation. 

Then through faith, perceiving that you have already received 
in essence, true substance, the fulfillment or expression comes 
Only thus is prayer answered. 



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Formulas for Self -Treatment. 



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FORMULAS FOR SELF-TREATMENT. 

(To use the following or like treatments for another, call the person by 
name, and speak in the second person, saying "You'' instead of "I.") 

THOUGHTS UPON GOD. 

Thou Infinite Presence, Thou art All and in all, "the fullness 
that filleth all" Thou art the Source and Substance of all things; 
therefore All is Good. Thou art Life, vivifying my mind and body. 
Thou art Power expressing through me. Thou art my Wisdom, in 
which I see only Perfection. Thou art my Understanding, so that 
I know all things glorify Thee. Thou art my Love, by which I 
realise how everything works together for good. Thou art my 
Faith, by which I perceive the Substance of which all things are 
made. Thou art ALL. I now know myself as Thy expression. 
Beside Thee there is none else. 



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THOUGHTS UPON SELF. 

/ am the living expression of God, created in His image and 
likeness. I see my Self in its purity, peace and power, without spot 
or blemish. I am joyous and free, basking in the sunlight of His 
love. I am strong and powerful, filled with the activity of Life. 
I am wise, receiving the illumination of Spirit. I am a radiating 
center of Life, Love, Joy, Prosperity, Health; for God is the Source 
and Substance of my being. My thought of personality is now sup- 
planted with the true thought of my being the Individual Expression 
of God, for the "Father within me, He doeth the works." 

THOUGHTS UPON FAITH. 

/ have faith in God. I have faith in myself. I have faith in 
mv health. I have faith in life. I have faith in my abundance. 
I have faith in God to express perfection through me. I am the 
Substance of that which I desire to be. 



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THOUGHTS UPON ABUNDANCE. 

There is but one Presence and Power in all the universe — the 
Good Omnipotent. This Presence is the Source of all, therefore 
the Substance of all. I now see this living Substance in me and in 
my affairs — in everything. God is my abundance of life, health, 
substance, supply. I am content to confidently trust this Infinite 
Intelligence to bring it forth into expression in me just when it 
should be manifest. I hold myself receptive to its inflow and out- 
flozv. I do not permit myself to become worried or anxious, know- 
ing that it is the Father working through me. I steadfastly see the 
Allness of God, and therefore see only Abundance. 

THOUGHTS ON RETIRING. 

/ recognize and claim my unity with God, my Father. There- 
fore, I am open and receptive to the illumination and inspiration of 
the Spirit while my brain and body rest and sleep. I am receptive 



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to only the Good. I now close the doors of my mind to every 
thought that is not of the highest and purest and best. Infinite 
Love enfolds me. Infinite Wisdom enlightens me. Infinite Power 
protects me. In this Presence I safely rest. 

THOUGHTS ON AWAKENING. 

7" recognize only the good, the true, the pure, the beautiful. I 
see this in every act and event of this day. I see love which up- 
lifts and brightens and glorifies. I see kindliness and gentleness 
and goodness in myself and in everyone. This day shall be a day 
of uplifiment, of fulfillment of my highest desires. I am now one 
with all that I desire, and since I desire the good and true and 
beautiful, I am good and true and beautiful, and express every good 
quality of the Infinite Presence. I am its ex pressor, and have the 
ability to show forth that which I recognise. I shall constantly 
abide in this Presence, so that I shall see only life, peace, health, 
success and perfection. 



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FOR WISDOM. 

"Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forget not all his benefits." 
With a grateful heart I turn to my Source which is full of His 
blessings. Through the presence and power of the One who is All, 
my soul is illumined. This Presenece enfolds me, and holds me in 
eternal Wisdom, and is now guiding me in paths of Peace. I cannot 
go astray or make a mistake, because this illuminating Life is born 
in me. Here and now all my nature rejoices in glad praise and 
thanksgiving that the Wisdom of Heaven abides within me. 



The One that is All is my teacher, counselor, guide. All things 
are uncovered before Him. He has entrance everywhere. He is 
acquainted zvith all my ways; is ever about my path. The Mind of 
minds is Wisdom of my wisdom. Therefore, I think, speak and 
act in Wisdom's Light. I cannot wander from its way. I am the 
mouthpiece of the Law. My speech is distilled as dew; every word 
I utter is pure and wholesome. His Word is Spirit; it is Truth. 



118 SPIEITUAL HEALING 

It refreshes, strengthens and satisfies my intellect. I no longer 
question things external, but turn to the One Source of Wisdom and 
receive my full answer there. 



The One Only Presence is Wisdom (Light) everywhere, and 
just as the sun includes its rays, I am now embodied in the warm, 
loving nature of Omnipotent Wisdom. I am one with the Universe 
around me; its Light permeates my entire being, unfolding me to 
the consciousness of my true Self. The Christ-Wisdom, which *'; 
the true Light, is Infinite, and meets my every need. I now con- 
sciously co-operate with this Inner Light. Every word I speak is 
true to the Christ within. I let the Christ-Light shine. I r.ilk in 
Its perfect way. 



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FOR HEALTH. 

"0 Lord, how manifold are thy works." This beautiful temple — 
my body — is filled with Thy Life and Health. I am one with Thee. 
In Thee I am embodied and expressed. I praise Thee for my health 
and all of Life's blessings. Every cell and organ of my body is in- 
fused with Thy living intelligent Power. God lives in me. I am an 
expression of His Power, and realize that His Life thrills my whole 
nature. All is Life. My every breath is inspired with His Life. I 
recognize that every atom in my body is intelligent, living Substance, 
obeying the Soul's purpose. I praise the Power of Endless Life, 
which is my true being here and now. 



The One Perfect Mind is the Source of all. I now turn to my 
unfailing Source and acknowledge my oneness with it — understand- 
ing it to be the only surgeon, the only physician. I trust its Life 
{Action), its nature (Love), to heal me. Every belief or opinion 
held over me by myself or anyone else is now absorbed in Love, the 



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true Nature of God. My eyes are open to the real, and a flood of 
Light and Truth permeates me. All that has seemed ungodlike is 
surrendered to Truth. My body is now the living authority of 
God's Power. I am the Physician that heals myself. 



God, the One Presence, has made all good, and, like Itself, AH 
is Perfect. I unite my thoughts with this Perfect One. I now knozu 
my body as it truly is. The Christ within expresses perfect freedom 
My body is the temple in which the Christ lives. Not an atom so 
tiny that this Living Spirit does not fill it. It is always pure Living 
Substance. Every moment my faith and trust in this Infinite One 
is deeper. Christ lives me now as Health, Peace, Freedom, and Joy. 



SPIRITUAL HEALING 121 

FOR THE ENVIRONMENT. 

/ rejoice and am glad that I now recognize the Omnipresence of 
Good; not only as being everywhere present, but as the living Pres- 
ence — Divine Substance — pervading all. This Consciousness is the 
Christ, and (< Christ is all, and in all!' Therefore, no longer do I look 
upon things and conditions about me as being inharmonious or limit- 
ed, but filled with Good and for my good. I now put on the "whole 
armor of God, having my loins girt about with Truth, and having on 
the breastplate of Righteousness ; my feet shod with the preparation 
of the Gospel of Peace; above all, taking the shield of Faith, where- 
with I am able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked; taking the 
helmet of Salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word 
of God." I am thankful that I can trust the Power of God within me 
to transcend and transform every thought of limitation of whatever 
nature, and thus do I face every experience with joy. 

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/ am in the Spirit, and of It. My environment is just as spirit- 



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ual as my soul. The One Living Substance is expressing in every 
form. Everything that surrounds me is alive, aflame with God. 
The Light of the Presence illumines all for me; it is eye of my eye, 
ear of my ear. I am in place; God's Law hath placed me here. O 
Supreme, let Thy great Law be manifest to, through and about me. 
Wherever I am, I am at home zvith Thee. I am content to live, to 
love, to serve Thy Will. My heaven is here and now. 



Our Father, Omnipresent, is here and nozv in this place as Life, 
Love, Peace, and Power. I now come into conscious union with this 
One, and find myself in the Universal Christ. I am conscious of 
being all that the Father is. Through this Christ-birth I am faithful 
to my Self, to every one, and to every thing. I no longer obey the 
opinions of the visible world, nor do I ask to have things made 
easier. I trust the Omnipresent Power to strengthen me so that I 
may meet the daily experiences courageously and patiently. My 



SPIBITUAL HEALING 123 

true living brings the consciousness of freedom. Every moment is 
full of Love; every act is full of Life; every condition is full of 
Opportunity. 

FOB ABUNDANCE. 
"Of His fulness have all we received." My heart sings a new 
song of praise and thanksgiving, for I am now aware that "all that 
the Father hath is mine." And I pray as Jesus instructed, believing 
that I have already received, and lo, my eyes are opened to see its 
fulfillment. God is the Abundant Substance of Good, and comes into 
manifestation through my recognition and appropriation. My God 
supplies all my needs according to my riches in glory by Christ 
Jesus. Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forget not all His benefits. 

T T T T 

The Spirit of Abundance is Omnipresent. J am consciously 
included in this Presence, and therefore partake of its fullness. 
The Father's will is that I arise and be true to my own ability. I 
do this by consciously thinking, speaking, and acting with the All- 



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inclusive Abundance. I am never lacking when I keep my thought 
in the Father's will. I do not work for personal glory. I use my 
energy always in the thought that God's Life is acting through me. 
I now affirm Universal Success is manifesting for me. God's Wis- 
dom tells me how to justly circulate. My attitude is trustful, ex- 
pedant, and consistent; thus becomes the avenue for the Physician 

which heals all lack. 

# # # 

God's Eternal Presence is Abundance in and through all. I am 
the trustful companion of this Eternal One, and am enfolded in its 
Abundant Substance (Spirit) — Love (nature), Life (activity), and 
Power. It is always pressing its Abundance into perfect manifesta- 
tion. I am now immersed in this Abundance, consciously one with it. 
Abundance is mine; it is around me. I open myself to it. I breathe 
it, sure that what I desire is mine. I go about my work in a recep- 
tive, trustful attitude, and let the Spirit of Abundance flow through 
me. I give wisely, and receive wisely, knowing that the earth is in 
the Kingdom of Loving Abundance. 



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Summary. 



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SUMMARY. 

The Omnipresence is the basis of all spiritual healing. The 
body and all manifestation is in this Presence, not evolved from it. 
God all in all. 

Thought unillumined does not see the fullness of Life, hence 
forms untrue conclusions, and projects these conclusions as false 
environment and misconceived body. This is ignorance. 

The more attention is given to externals the greater the con- 
fusion and inharmony in thought and expression. 

To realize health you must turn to the Source of your being, 
and then will you know its truth. This is Knowledge. 

Thus your true power is revealed to you, which is your real 
nature, your eternal state. 

Only in standing with God will God work in and through you 



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Then will your thought-projection (conclusion about things) 
be altogether harmonious, perfect. 

Since the cause of dis-ease is ignorance, the remedy is Knowl- 
edge, which is the illumination of Spirit when you give it your at- 
tention and become receptive to it — when you let it in. 

Healing is the awakening of consciousness in you, a change 
from belief in sin and disease to a knowledge of the Truth. 

One thing alone heals : The realisation or consciousness of 
God's Presence. 

There is but one treatment, though expressed in various forms 
of language : The recognition of this One Presence. 

There is but one Omnipresence — God, Spirit. 

There is but one foundation — Truth. 



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There is but one place where Truth can be revealed to you — 
In Mind or Consciousness. 

There is but one method of receiving it — Receptivity. 

Faith is the door to realization. 

Willing obedience is the tool of Faith, and Works are the evi- 
dences of it. 

Thought is the instrument used. 

Loyalty, Integrity, Faithfulness, Fearlessness, Patience and 
Love, are the essential requisites of a Practitioner or Healer. 

Sincere Desire, Faith, Receptiveness, and Activity of Expres- 
sion are necessary in the patient to t^come conscious of God, and 
therefore healed. 

Wholeness — Perfection, is the natural result of the recognition 
and acceptance of Truth. 



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